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Brother Louis Collective

Debut Album In The Making..

About Me

We live under the Lo Five umbrella along with a number of other fine artists, most of whom you'll find in our top friends. We began life in February of last year and we are currently working on our debut album due for release in the not too distant future..b.l.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/2/2006
Band Members: Louis: Guitars, Singing. Kevin Brolly: Clarinet, Keys, Singing. Phil Hague: Drums, Singing. Sarah Hayes: Piano, Flute, Singing. Joe Rattray: Upright Bass, Singing.
Influences: Mogwai, Black Mountain, Elbow, The Dears, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, Adem, Idlewild, Arcade Fire, Tom Waits, John Martyn, Low, Bright Eyes, Nick Cave, Midlake, The Buckley's, King Creosote, Sufjan Stevens..
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Your Sound Artist of the Month

Off the back of the recent recordings we made, the delightful delegates at Your Sound have decided that we are their artist of the month for april!!   a pleasent surprise to say the least. so tha...
Posted by Brother Louis Collective on Mon, 05 May 2008 02:48:00 PST

a rate of knots...

as you'll see, we've put the third, and for some of you, final song up on the page.   it's called bomb through the town and features sarah taking lead. it's a vibe..   as mentioned before in...
Posted by Brother Louis Collective on Fri, 02 May 2008 06:01:00 PST

Your Sound this Sunday..

yo   off the back of our recent four track demo we have been invited to appear at this month's Your Sound event this sunday in King Tuts.   one of our tracks will be played by the Your Sound...
Posted by Brother Louis Collective on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:58:00 PST

’this is how it’s gonna go...’

the wait is over.   the songs are here and finished and (we think) sound great..   however there is a catch. we're gonna drip feed them to you in an attempt to sex it all up a bit..   t...
Posted by Brother Louis Collective on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:37:00 PST

these, the barren years..

the last few weeks have been interesting. with a short holiday came some time to really dedicate energy into this musical project which we all embarked upon just over a year ago..we were sick of sayin...
Posted by Brother Louis Collective on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:30:00 PST

Liquid Rooms - guiLLeMoTs part deux!

Me and Sarah will be playing an acoustic set on Monday  20th August in my hometown, Edinburgh, with our old chums guillemots. If you know us and you're interested in guesties, let me know and i'l...
Posted by Brother Louis Collective on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:19:00 PST

The Ultimate Chill and beyond

To see the full line up of this Ultimate Chill Festival in Dundee, Click here   www.theultimatechill.com   And take a swatch. Think it's gonna be a good 'un. Lots goin on including our Joe g...
Posted by Brother Louis Collective on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:22:00 PST

The Summer Of Progress

Yo. It's been a long time coming but this summer sees a number of big events for the collective...The Debut E.P. is in the post and we're all very happy by the thought of getting into the studio and m...
Posted by Brother Louis Collective on Sat, 12 May 2007 12:26:00 PST

'Brother Louis Collective Mercho And Thank You's'

Hi. Firstly, Thanks very much to all who came and made noise last night. It was really cool to see a few freindly faces. Sorry i couldnt get Guesties to those who wanted them. The whole thing was very...
Posted by Brother Louis Collective on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:52:00 PST

Brother Louis Collective to support Guillemots!

Guillemots and Brother Louis @ Carling Academy, Feb 8th 7.30 Don't really know how this came about but it would be cool to have some people there that we know! we'll be on first at about 8 o'cloc...
Posted by Brother Louis Collective on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:24:00 PST